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Mind Eraser
Steel Inverted at Six Flags America, Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Opened 1995, closed 2025.
This ride has closed. It last operated at Six Flags America in 2025.
- Height
- 109 ft
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- 50 mph
- Length
- 2,261 ft
- Inversions
- 5
- Ride time
- 1 min 36 s
- Designer
- Vekoma
Mind Eraser was renamed Professor Screamore's SkyWinder when it reopened on June 22, 2024, after standing idle in 2023. It last ran on November 2, 2025, when Six Flags America closed permanently.
Mind Eraser was a steel inverted roller coaster at Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It was a standard Vekoma Suspended Looping Coaster (SLC) and opened on May 20, 1995, when the park was called Adventure World. In 2024 it was renamed Professor Screamore's SkyWinder, and it stopped running when Six Flags America closed permanently on November 2, 2025.
Riders sat in trains that hang below the track. RCDB lists the ride at 109.3 feet tall, with 2,260.5 feet of track, a top speed of 49.7 mph, five inversions and a ride time of 1 minute 36 seconds. After a chain lift hill, the course runs through a roll-over, a sidewinder and a double in-line twist.
History
The coaster ran as Mind Eraser from 1995 through 2022 and stood unused in 2023. It reopened on June 22, 2024, as Professor Screamore's SkyWinder, one of the renovated attractions in the park's new SteamTown area, with new eight-car trains from Vekoma. After the park closed, those trains were fitted to DareDeviler, another Vekoma SLC, at Canada's Wonderland for the 2026 season.
Other parks have also run SLCs named Mind Eraser, including Six Flags Darien Lake in New York.
Sources
- rcdb.com/149.htm (Professor Screamore's SkyWinder (formerly Mind Eraser): Vekoma; SBNO 2023 to 2024-06-21, operated 2024-06-22 to 2025-11-02, SBNO since 2025-11-03; length 2260.5 ft, height 109.3 ft, speed 49.7 mph, 5 inversions, duration 1:36)
- rcdb.com/4558.htm (Park was named Adventure World 1994-1998; park operated until 2025-11-02)
- wjla.com/news/local/six-flags-bowie-maryland-steamtown-openi... (SteamTown opened June 22, 2024; Professor Screamore's SkyWinder among the renovated attractions (also gives 55 mph, see doubts))
- rcdb.com/57.htm (DareDeviler at Canada's Wonderland received the trains from Professor Screamore's SkyWinder for the 2026 season)
- rcdb.com/430.htm (A separate Vekoma SLC named Mind Eraser at Six Flags Darien Lake)
- cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-six-flags-america-closin... (Six Flags America closing November 2, 2025)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_America (SkyWinder opened 1995; its trains went to Canada's Wonderland for The Daredeviler in 2026)
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